Historic Day for Sphynx Cats

The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF) has decided to recognise Sphynx Cats as a breed.

This odd breed of cat has now been allowed into the inner sanctum of the cat breeding and showing world.  I expect the Breeders are now rubbing their hands together.  The publicity that this will bring will see the

Sphynx Cat

breed grow in numbers and admirers.  Last week I saw 3 articles in my daily paper and I expect the others were just the same.

Personally, I don’t care for them.  They just don’t look like cats to me, but I expect that there will be plenty of people who will love their odd looks or who will jump on the breeding bandwagon for the money.  With pet quality kittens fetching around £600-700 each and show qualilty £1,000 and upwards, I suspect some people will be only to ready to try to cash-in.

I’ve heard breeders say that they do it for the ‘love’ of the breed and that they don’t make any money out of their ‘hobby’, but I remain sceptical.  Not all breeders have ‘cat’ premises.  In my eight years of doing cat rescue and welfare for the biggest UK cat charity I’ve seen plenty of breeders using spare rooms in their houses.

Then there’s the cat shows.  Oh, save me from these people!  I’ve never heard such a load of tosh in all my life.  Well, I suppose each to their own.  It would be a very boring world if we all liked the same things.

I just love moggies.  Give me a good calico or tabby or ginger or black & white or tortoiseshell ……….. anyday !!